Translator：Xiong Yajie

On the afternoon of December 28, 2023, the Law School of Tongji University and Landing Scholarship Award Ceremony and Symposium on the Construction of the Off-campus Practice Base (Landing) were held in Room 2013 of Zhonghe Building.  Liqin Huang, Vice Dean of the Law School of Tongji University, Wenha Xui, Head of Practical Teaching, and the award-winning students from the Law School, as well as lawyers Huan'e Zhang, Chunyan Jiang, Yueqing Li, and Lijuan Bai from Landing Law Offices, attended the meeting.

To cultivate a high-quality team of foreign-related legal professionals, leverage the role of universities as a training ground for legal talents, and bridge the gap between theory and practice, Landing Law Offices and the Law School of Tongji University jointly established the Tongji University (Landing) Practical Base to facilitate communication between legal research departments and legal practice departments. The Landing Scholarship was also established to incentivize students to actively engage in legal practice and cultivate themselves as successors to high-quality legal construction. The Landing Scholarship is awarded annually to students who demonstrate excellent performance in legal practice and diversified dispute resolution.

At the meeting, Dean Liqin Huang first explained the background and purpose of the symposium and expressed gratitude to Landing Law Offices for its consistent support for the teaching work of the Law School of Tongji University. Dean Huang mentioned that although Tongji is known for its engineering disciplines, the university is committed to creating excellent liberal arts programs with unique characteristics. To meet the need for cultivating foreign-related legal talents, the the Law School of Tongji University has actively signed a dual-degree program with the School of Forign Studies for English and Law, launched a new model of joint training, and injected fresh talent into the team of foreign-related legal professionals. In the future, the Law School of Tongji University will continue to build cooperation platforms and innovate talent training models in Law-German and other foreign-related directions based on the dual-degree program in comparative law between China and Germany at the postgraduate level. The Law School is also actively collaborating with other colleges, such as the Civil Engineering and Law Class, to transform Tongji's law program into a distinctive and high-quality one.

Landing Law Offices has always been an important off-campus practical education base for us. Since the Law School of Tongji University and Landing Law Offices jointly established the Law School of Tongji University Legal Aid Practice Base in September 2022, the two parties have maintained friendly contact and close cooperation. In 2022, they jointly organized a meta-universe mock court, which achieved remarkable results. This symposium is a positive dialogue between the two parties to strengthen exchanges and cooperation, jointly cultivate talents with both theoretical and practical abilities, and build a high-quality legal team with both moral integrity and professional ability.

Huan'e Zhang, Senior Partner of Landing Law Offices and Director of the Landing Family and Wealth Inheritance Department, pointed out at the meeting that legal talents should have a sense of responsibility and dare to take on responsibilities. Law is an important tool to maintain social fairness and justice, and the legal profession is the guardian of safeguarding legal rights and interests. Legal practitioners not only need to be familiar with laws and regulations but also possess good moral qualities and professional skills. No matter what their future career choices are, practice is an essential part of teaching. Actively encouraging students to participate in legal practice, actively communicate and collaborate with legal practice departments, is the top priority of talent cultivation. Landing Law Offices will actively cooperate and spare no effort to jointly cultivate legal talents who meet the requirements of the times with the Law School of Tongji University, standing together at the forefront of cultivating high-quality legal talents.

Subsequently, Dean Liqin Huang, together with Director Huan'e Zhang, Lawyer Chunyan Jiang, Lawyer Yueqing Li, and Lawyer Lijuan Bai, awarded the Landing Scholarship to outstanding students.

After the award ceremony, Teacher Wenhai Xu discussed with the lawyers from Landing Law Offices the content and direction of the cooperation between the Law School of Tongji University and Landing Law Offices in the fields of talent training and practical teaching in the coming year. He pointed out that he hoped for closer cooperation between the Law School and Landing Law Offices in the future. In addition to the direction of marital and family affairs, he also hoped to promote further exchanges in the direction of foreign-related legal system and labor field. In terms of cooperation forms, it can also be richer. In addition to the legal clinic series courses, he hoped to jointly carry out academic exchanges, paper cooperation writing, practical teaching and other activities.

Later, Lawyer Huan'e Zhang expressed her happiness for the positive and upward appearance of Tongji University students, and said that Landing Law Offices will continue to cooperate with the Law School of Tongji University to cultivate and build legal practice talent teams.